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Flooding source(s) Location of referenced elevation 

*Elevation in feet 

(NGVD) 

+Elevation in feet 

(NAVD) 

# Depth in feet above 

ground. 

Communities affected 

Effective Modified 

Approximately 1000 feet downstream from State Hwy 

121.

*638 +633 City of Plano 

Collin County (Unincorporated Areas). 

*National Geodetic Vertical Datum. 

#Depth in feet above ground. 

+North American Vertical Datum. 

ADDRESSES 

City of Allen 

Maps are available for inspection at One Butler Circle, Allen, TX 75013 

Send comments to The Honorable Stephen Terrell, Mayor, City of Allen, 305 Century Parkway, Allen, TX 75013 

City of Celina 

Maps are available for inspection at City of Celina, 320 West Walnut, Celina, TX 75009 

Send comments to The Honorable Corbett Howard, Mayor, City of Celina, 302 West Walnut, Celina, TX 75009 

City of Frisco 

Maps are available for inspection at City of Frisco, 6891 Main Street, Frisco, TX 75034 

Send comments to The Honorable Michael Simpson, Mayor, City of Frisco, 6101 Frisco Square Blvd, Frisco, TX 75034 

City of Lucas 

Maps are available for inspection at 151 Country Club Road, Lucas, TX 75002 

Send comments to The Honorable Bob Sanders, Mayor, City of Lucas, 151 Country Club Road, Lucas, TX 75002 

City of McKinney 

Maps are available for inspection at City of McKinney, 222 North Tennessee Street, McKinney, TX 75070 

Send comments to The Honorable Bill Whitfield, Mayor, City of McKinney, 222 North Tennessee, McKinney, TX 75070 

City of Melissa 

Maps are available for inspection at City of Melissa, 109 U.S. Hwy 121, Melissa, TX 75454 

Send comments to The Honorable David Dorman, Mayor, City of Melissa, P.O. Box 409, Melissa, TX 75454 

City of Parker 

Maps are available for inspection at City of Parker, 5700 East Parker Road, Parker, TX 75002 

Send comments to The Honorable Jerry Tartaglino, Mayor, City of Parker, 5700 East Parker Road, Parker, TX 75002 

City of Plano 

Maps are available for inspection at City of Plano, 1520 Avenue K, Plano, TX 75086 

Send comments to The Honorable Pat Evans, Mayor, City of Plano, P.O. Box 860358, Plano, TX 75086 

City of Wylie 

Maps are available for inspection at City of Wylie, 114 North Ballard Avenue, Wylie, TX 75098 

Send comments to The Honorable John Mondy, Mayor, City of Wylie, 2000 Hwy 78 North, Wylie, TX 75098 

Collin County (Unincorporated Areas) 

Maps are available for inspection at Collin County Department of Public Works, 210 South McDonald Street, McKinney, TX 75069 

Send comments to The Honorable Ron Harris, Judge, Collin County, 210 South McDonald, McKinney, TX 75069 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

No. 83.100, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) 

Dated March 26, 2007. 

David I. Maurstad, 

Director, Mitigation Division, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency, Department 

of Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. E7–6555 Filed 4–6–07; 845 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

49 CFR Part 544 

[Docket No.: NHTSA–2007–27240] 

RIN 2127–AJ98 

Insurer Reporting Requirements; List 

of Insurers Required To File Reports 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: This document proposes to 

amend Appendices A, B, and C of 49 

CFR Part 544, insurer reporting 

requirements. The appendices list those 

passenger motor vehicle insurers that 

are required to file reports on their 

motor vehicle theft loss experiences. An 

insurer included in any of these 

appendices would be required to file 

three copies of its report for the 2004 

calendar year before October 25, 2007. 

If the passenger motor vehicle insurers 

remain listed, they must submit reports 

by each subsequent October 25. We are 

proposing to add and remove several 

insurers from relevant appendices. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

not later than June 8, 2007. Insurers 

listed in the appendices are required to 

submit reports on or before October 25, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number: NHTSA–


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1A.M. Best Company is a well-recognized source 

of insurance company ratings and information. 49 

U.S.C. 33112(i) authorizes NHTSA to consult with 

public and private organizations as necessary. 

2Automotive Fleet Magazine and Auto Rental 

News are publications that provide information on 

the size of fleets and market share of rental and 

leasing companies. 

2007–27240 and/or RIN number: 2127–

AJ98, by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Agency Web Site: http:// 

dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for 

submitting comments on the Docket 

Management System. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

• Mail: Dockets, 400 7th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Plaza Level 

Room 401, (PL #401), of the Nassif 

Building, 400 7th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 1–

800–647–5527. 

You may visit the Docket from 10 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rosalind Proctor, Office of International 

Vehicle, Fuel Economy and Consumer 

Standards, NHTSA, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590, by 

electronic mail to 

rosalind.proctor@dot.gov. Ms. Proctor’s 

telephone number is (202) 366–0846. 

Her fax number is (202) 493–2290. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 33112, Insurer 

reports and information, NHTSA 

requires certain passenger motor vehicle 

insurers to file an annual report with the 

agency. Each insurer’s report includes 

information about thefts and recoveries 

of motor vehicles, the rating rules used 

by the insurer to establish premiums for 

comprehensive coverage, the actions 

taken by the insurer to reduce such 

premiums, and the actions taken by the 

insurer to reduce or deter theft. Under 

the agency’s regulation, 49 CFR Part 

544, the following insurers are subject to 

the reporting requirements: 

(1) Issuers of motor vehicle insurance 

policies whose total premiums account 

for 1 percent or more of the total 

premiums of motor vehicle insurance 

issued within the United States; 

(2) Issuers of motor vehicle insurance 

policies whose premiums account for 10 

percent or more of total premiums 

written within any one state; and 

(3) Rental and leasing companies with 

a fleet of 20 or more vehicles not 

covered by theft insurance policies 

issued by insurers of motor vehicles, 

other than any governmental entity. 

Pursuant to its statutory exemption 

authority, the agency exempted certain 

passenger motor vehicle insurers from 

the reporting requirements. 

A. Small Insurers of Passenger Motor 

Vehicles 

Section 33112(f)(2) provides that the 

agency shall exempt small insurers of 

passenger motor vehicles if NHTSA 

finds that such exemptions will not 

significantly affect the validity or 

usefulness of the information in the 

reports, either nationally or on a stateby-state basis. The term ‘‘small insurer’’

is defined, in Section 33112(f)(1)(A) and 

(B), as an insurer whose premiums for 

motor vehicle insurance issued directly 

or through an affiliate, including 

pooling arrangements established under 

state law or regulation for the issuance 

of motor vehicle insurance, account for 

less than 1 percent of the total 

premiums for all forms of motor vehicle 

insurance issued by insurers within the 

United States. However, that section 

also stipulates that if an insurance 

company satisfies this definition of a 

‘‘small insurer,’’ but accounts for 10 

percent or more of the total premiums 

for all motor vehicle insurance issued in 

a particular state, the insurer must 

report about its operations in that state. 

In the final rule establishing the 

insurer reports requirement (52 FR 59; 

January 2, 1987), 49 CFR Part 544, 

NHTSA exercised its exemption 

authority by listing in Appendix A each 

insurer that must report because it had 

at least 1 percent of the motor vehicle 

insurance premiums nationally. Listing 

the insurers subject to reporting, instead 

of each insurer exempted from reporting 

because it had less than 1 percent of the 

premiums nationally, is 

administratively simpler since the 

former group is much smaller than the 

latter. In Appendix B, NHTSA lists 

those insurers required to report for 

particular states because each insurer 

had a 10 percent or greater market share 

of motor vehicle premiums in those 

states. In the January 1987 final rule, the 

agency stated that it would update 

Appendices A and B annually. NHTSA 

updates the appendices based on data 

voluntarily provided by insurance 

companies to A.M. Best .1 A.M. Best, 

publishes in its State/Line Report each 

spring. The agency uses the data to 

determine the insurers’ market shares 

nationally and in each state. 

B. Self-Insured Rental and Leasing 

Companies 

In addition, upon making certain 

determinations, NHTSA grants 

exemptions to self-insurers, i.e., any 

person who has a fleet of 20 or more 

motor vehicles (other than any 

governmental entity) used for rental or 

lease whose vehicles are not covered by 

theft insurance policies issued by 

insurers of passenger motor vehicles, 49 

U.S.C. 33112(b)(1) and (f). Under 49 

U.S.C. 33112(e)(1) and (2), NHTSA may 

exempt a self-insurer from reporting, if 

the agency determines: 

(1) The cost of preparing and 

furnishing such reports is excessive in 

relation to the size of the business of the 

insurer; and 33112(e)(1) and (2), 

(2) the insurer’s report will not 

significantly contribute to carrying out 

the purposes of Chapter 331. 

In a final rule published June 22, 1990 

(55 FR 25606), the agency granted a 

class exemption to all companies that 

rent or lease fewer than 50,000 vehicles, 

because it believed that the largest 

companies’ reports sufficiently 

represent the theft experience of rental 

and leasing companies. NHTSA 

concluded that smaller rental and 

leasing companies’ reports do not 

significantly contribute to carrying out 

NHTSA’s statutory obligations and that 

exempting such companies will relieve 

an unnecessary burden on them. As a 

result of the June 1990 final rule, the 

agency added Appendix C, consisting of 

an annually updated list of the selfinsurers subject to Part 544. Following 

the same approach as in Appendix A, 

NHTSA included, in Appendix C, each 

of the self-insurers subject to reporting 

instead of the self-insurers which are 

exempted. 

NHTSA updates Appendix C based 

primarily on information from 

Automotive Fleet Magazine and Auto 

Rental News.2

C. When a Listed Insurer Must File a 

Report 

Under Part 544, as long as an insurer 

is listed, it must file reports on or before 

October 25 of each year. Thus, any 

insurer listed in the appendices must 

file a report before October 25, and by 

each succeeding October 25, absent an 

amendment removing the insurer’s 

name from the appendices. 

II. Proposal 

1. Insurers of Passenger Motor Vehicles 

Appendix A lists insurers that must 

report because each had 1 percent of the 

motor vehicle insurance premiums on a 

national basis. The list was last 

amended in a final rule published on 

September 5, 2006 (71 FR 52291). 

Subsequent to publishing the listing, the 

agency was informed that Travelers 

Property Casualty Corporation merged 

with St Paul Companies, officially 

becoming St Paul Travelers Companies 


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on April 1, 2004. Therefore, the agency 

proposes to remove Travelers PC Group 

and add St Paul Travelers Companies to 

Appendix A. 

Each of the 18 insurers listed in 

Appendix A are required to file a report 

before October 25, 2007, setting forth 

the information required by Part 544 for 

each State in which it did business in 

the 2004 calendar year. As long as these 

18 insurers remain listed, they will be 

required to submit reports by each 

subsequent October 25 for the calendar 

year ending slightly less than 3 years 

before. 

Appendix B lists insurers required to 

report for particular States for calendar 

year 2004, because each insurer had a 

10 percent or greater market share of 

motor vehicle premiums in those States. 

Based on the 2004 calendar year data for 

market shares from A.M. Best, we 

propose to remove Arbella Mutual 

Insurance (Massachusetts) and add the 

Farm Bureau of Idaho Group (Idaho) to 

Appendix B. 

The nine insurers listed in Appendix 

B are required to report on their 

calendar year 2004 activities in every 

State where they had a 10 percent or 

greater market share. These reports must 

be filed by October 25, 2007, and set 

forth the information required by Part 

544. As long as these nine insurers 

remain listed, they would be required to 

submit reports on or before each 

subsequent October 25 for the calendar 

year ending slightly less than 3 years 

before. 

2. Rental and Leasing Companies 

Appendix C lists rental and leasing 

companies required to file reports. 

Based on information in Automotive 

Fleet Magazine and Auto Rental News 

for 2004, NHTSA proposes to add 

Emkay Inc. Each of the 8 companies 

(including franchisees and licensees) 

listed in Appendix C would be required 

to file reports for calendar year 2004 no 

later than October 25, 2007, and set 

forth the information required by Part 

544. As long as those 8 companies 

remain listed, they would be required to 

submit reports before each subsequent 

October 25 for the calendar year ending 

slightly less than 3 years before. 

III. Regulatory Impacts 

1. Costs and Other Impacts 

This notice has not been reviewed 

under Executive Order 12866. NHTSA 

has considered the impact of this 

proposed rule and determined that the 

action is not ‘‘significant’’ within the 

meaning of the Department of 

Transportation’s regulatory policies and 

procedures. This proposed rule 

implements the agency’s policy of 

ensuring that all insurance companies 

that are statutorily eligible for 

exemption from the insurer reporting 

requirements are in fact exempted from 

those requirements. Only those 

companies that are not statutorily 

eligible for an exemption are required to 

file reports. 

NHTSA does not believe that this 

proposed rule, reflecting current data, 

affects the impacts described in the final 

regulatory evaluation prepared for the 

final rule establishing Part 544 (52 FR 

59; January 2, 1987). Accordingly, a 

separate regulatory evaluation has not 

been prepared for this rulemaking 

action. Using the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics Consumer Price Index for 2006 

(see http://www.bls.gov/cgi-bin/ 

surveymost), the cost estimates in the 

1987 final regulatory evaluation were 

adjusted for inflation. The agency 

estimates that the cost of compliance is 

$100,800 for any insurer added to 

Appendix A, $40, 320 for any insurer 

added to Appendix B, and $11,632 for 

any insurer added to Appendix C. If this 

proposed rule is made final, for 

Appendix A, the agency would propose 

to remove one company and add one 

company; for Appendix B, the agency 

would propose to remove one company 

and add one company; and for 

Appendix C, the agency would propose 

to add one company. The agency 

estimates that the net effect of this 

proposal, if made final, would be a cost 

increase to insurers, as a group of 

approximately $11,632. 

Interested persons may wish to 

examine the 1987 final regulatory 

evaluation. Copies of that evaluation 

were placed in Docket No. T86–01; 

Notice 2. Any interested person may 

obtain a copy of this evaluation by 

writing to NHTSA, Docket Section, 

Room 5109, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590, or by calling 

(202) 366–4949. 

2. Paperwork Reduction Act 

The information collection 

requirements in this proposed rule were 

submitted and approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to the requirements of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.). This collection of 

information is assigned OMB Control 

Number 2127–0547 (‘‘Insurer Reporting 

Requirements’’) and approved for use 

through August 31, 2009, and the 

agency will seek to extend the approval 

afterwards. 

3. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The agency also considered the effects 

of this rulemaking under the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 U.S.C. 601 et 

seq.). I certify that this proposed rule 

will not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. The rationale for the 

certification is that none of the 

companies proposed for Appendices A, 

B, or C are construed to be a small entity 

within the definition of the RFA. ‘‘Small 

insurer’’ is defined, in part under 49 

U.S.C. 33112, as any insurer whose 

premiums for all forms of motor vehicle 

insurance account for less than 1 

percent of the total premiums for all 

forms of motor vehicle insurance issued 

by insurers within the United States, or 

any insurer whose premiums within any 

State, account for less than 10 percent 

of the total premiums for all forms of 

motor vehicle insurance issued by 

insurers within the State. This notice 

would exempt all insurers meeting 

those criteria. Any insurer too large to 

meet those criteria is not a small entity. 

In addition, in this rulemaking, the 

agency proposes to exempt all ‘‘self 

insured rental and leasing companies’’

that have fleets of fewer than 50,000 

vehicles. Any self-insured rental and 

leasing company too large to meet that 

criterion is not a small entity. 

4. Federalism 

This action has been analyzed 

according to the principles and criteria 

contained in Executive Order 12612, 

and it has been determined that the 

proposed rule does not have sufficient 

federalism implications to warrant the 

preparation of a Federalism Assessment. 

5. Environmental Impacts 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act, NHTSA has 

considered the environmental impacts 

of this proposed rule and determined 

that it would not have a significant 

impact on the quality of the human 

environment. 

6. Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) 

The Department of Transportation 

assigns a regulation identifier number 

(RIN) to each regulatory action listed in 

the Unified Agenda of Federal 

Regulations. The Regulatory Information 

Service Center publishes the Unified 

Agenda in April and October of each 

year. You may use the RIN contained in 

the heading, at the beginning, of this 

document to find this action in the 

Unified Agenda. 

7. Plain Language 

Executive Order 12866 and the 

President’s memorandum of June 1, 

1998, require each agency to write all 

rules in plain language. Application of 

the principles of plain language 


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includes consideration of the following 

questions: 

• Have we organized the material to 

suit the public’s needs? 

• Are the requirements in the 

proposal clearly stated? 

• Does the proposal contain technical 

language or jargon that is not clear? 

• Would a different format (grouping 

and order of sections, use of headings, 

paragraphing) make the rule easier to 

understand? 

• Would more (but shorter) sections 

be better? 

• Could we improve clarity by adding 

tables, lists, or diagrams? 

• What else could we do to make the 

proposal easier to understand? 

If you have any responses to these 

questions, you can forward them to me 

several ways: 

a. Mail: Rosalind Proctor, Office of 

International Vehicle, Fuel Economy 

and Consumer Standards, NHTSA, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590; 

b. E-mail: rosalind.proctor@dot.gov; 

or 

c. Fax: (202) 493–2290. 

IV. Comments 

Submission of Comments 

1. How Can I Influence NHTSA’s 

Thinking on This Proposed Rule? 

In developing our rules, NHTSA tries 

to address the concerns of all our 

stakeholders. Your comments will help 

us improve this rule. We invite you to 

provide views on our proposal, new 

data, a discussion of the effects of this 

proposal on you, or other relevant 

information. We welcome your views on 

all aspects of this proposed rule. Your 

comments will be most effective if you 

follow the suggestions below: 

• Explain your views and reasoning 

clearly. 

• Provide solid technical and cost 

data to support your views. 

• If you estimate potential costs, 

explain how you derived the estimate. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns. 

• Offer specific alternatives. 

• Include the name, date, and docket 

number with your comments. 

2. How Do I Prepare and Submit 

Comments? 

Your comments must be written in 

English. To ensure that your comments 

are correctly filed in the Docket, please 

include the docket number of this 

document in your comments. 

Your comments must not exceed 15 

pages long (49 CFR 553.21). We 

established this limit to encourage you 

to write your primary comments 

concisely. You may attach necessary 

documents to your comments. We have 

no limit on the attachments’ length. 

Please submit two copies of your 

comments, including the attachments, 

to Docket Management at the address 

given above under ADDRESSES. 

Comments may also be submitted to 

the docket electronically by logging onto 

the Dockets Management System Web 

site at http://dms.dot.gov. Click on 

‘‘Help & Information’’ or ‘‘Help/Info’’ to 

obtain instructions for filling the 

document electronically. 

3. How Can I Be Sure That My 

Comments Were Received? 

If you wish Docket Management to 

notify you, upon its receipt of your 

comments, enclose a self-addressed, 

stamped postcard in the envelope 

containing your comments. Upon 

receiving your comments, Docket 

Management will mail the postcard. 

4. How Do I Submit Confidential 

Business Information? 

If you wish to submit any information 

under a confidentiality claim, you 

should submit three copies of your 

complete submission, including the 

information you claim as confidential 

business information, to the Chief 

Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, 

NHTSA, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. In addition, you 

should submit two copies, from which 

you have deleted the claimed 

confidential business information, to 

Docket Management at the address 

given above under ADDRESSES. When 

you send a comment containing 

information claimed to be confidential 

business information, you should 

include a cover letter addressing the 

information specified in our 

confidential business information 

regulation (49 CFR Part 512). 

5. Will the Agency Consider Late 

Comments? 

NHTSA will consider all comments 

that Docket Management receives before 

the close of business on the comment 

closing date indicated above under 

DATES. To the extent possible, we will 

also consider comments that Docket 

Management receives after that date. If 

Docket Management receives a comment 

too late for us to consider, in developing 

a final rule (assuming that one is 

issued), we will consider that comment 

as an informal suggestion for future 

rulemaking action. 

6. How Can I Read the Comments 

Submitted by Other People? 

You may read the comments received 

by Docket Management at the address 

given above under ADDRESSES. The 

hours of the Docket are indicated above, 

in the same location. You may also see 

the comments on the Internet. To read 

the comments on the Internet, take the 

following steps: 

1. Go to the Docket Management 

System (DMS) Web page of the 

Department of Transportation (http:// 

dms.dot.gov/). 

2. On that page, click on ‘‘search.’’

3. On the next page (http:// 

dms.dot.gov/search/), type in the fourdigit docket number shown at the 

beginning of this document. Example: If 

the docket number was ‘‘NHTSA 1998–

1234,’’ you would type ‘‘1234.’’ After 

typing the docket number, click on 

‘‘search.’’

4. On the next page, which contains 

docket summary information for the 

docket you selected, click on the desired 

comments. The ‘‘pdf’’ versions of the 

documents are word searchable. 

V. Conclusion 

Based on the foregoing, we are 

proposing to amend Appendices A, B, 

and C of 49 CFR 544, Insurer Reporting 

Requirements. We are also amending 

§ 544.5 to revise the example given the 

recent update to the reporting 

requirements. 

List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 544 

Crime insurance, insurance, insurance 

companies, motor vehicles, reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

In consideration of the foregoing, 49 

CFR Part 544 is proposed to be amended 

as follows: 

PART 544—[AMENDED] 

1. The authority citation for part 544 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 33112; delegation of 

authority at 49 CFR 1.50. 

2. Paragraph (a) of § 544.5 is revised 

to read as follows: 

§ 544.5 General requirements for reports. 

(a) Each insurer to which this part 

applies shall submit a report annually 

before October 25, beginning on October 

25, 1986. This report shall contain the 

information required by § 544.6 of this 

part for the calendar year 3 years 

previous to the year in which the report 

is filed (e.g., the report due by October 

25, 2007, will contain the required 

information for the 2004 calendar year). 

* * * * * 

3. Appendix A to Part 544 is revised 

to read as follows: 


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1 Indicates a newly listed company, which must 

file a report beginning with the report due October 

25, 2007. 

1 Indicates a newly listed company, which must 

file a report beginning with the report due October 

25, 2007. 

Appendix A—Insurers of Motor Vehicle 

Insurance Policies Subject to the 

Reporting Requirements in Each State 

in Which They Do Business 

Allstate Insurance Group 

American Family Insurance Group 

American International Group 

Auto-Owners Insurance Group 

CNA Insurance Companies 

Erie Insurance Group 

Berkshire Hathaway/GEICO Corporation 

Group 

Hartford Insurance Group 

Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies 

Metropolitan Life Auto & Home Group 

Mercury General Group 

Nationwide Group 

Progressive Group 

Safeco Insurance Companies 

State Farm Group 

St Paul Travelers Companies 1

USAA Group 

Farmers Insurance Group 

4. Appendix B to Part 544 is revised 

to read as follows: 

Appendix B—Issuers of Motor Vehicle 

Insurance Policies Subject to the 

Reporting Requirements Only in 

Designated States 

Alfa Insurance Group (Alabama) 

Auto Club (Michigan) 

Commerce Group, Inc. (Massachusetts) 

Farm Bureau of Idaho Group (Idaho) 1

Kentucky Farm Bureau Group (Kentucky) 

New Jersey Manufacturers Group (New 

Jersey) 

Safety Group (Massachusetts) 

Southern Farm Bureau Group (Arkansas, 

Mississippi) 

Tennessee Farmers Companies (Tennessee) 

5. Appendix C to Part 544 is revised 

to read as follows: 

Appendix C—Motor Vehicle Rental and 

Leasing Companies (Including 

Licensees and Franchisees) Subject to 

the Reporting Requirements of Part 544 

Cendant Car Rental 

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group 

EmKay, Inc. 1 

Enterprise Rent-A-Car 

Enterprise Fleet Services 

Hertz Rent-A-Car Division (subsidiary of The 

Hertz Corporation) 

U-Haul International, Inc. (Subsidiary of 

AMERCO) 

Vanguard Car Rental USA 

Issued on: March 30, 2007. 

Stephen R. Kratzke, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. E7–6519 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 660 

[Docket No. 070323069–7069–01;I.D. 

031907A] 

RIN 0648–AV46 

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS issues a proposed rule 

to establish catch accounting 

requirements for persons who receive, 

buy, or accept Pacific whiting (whiting) 

deliveries of 4,000 pounds (lb) (1.18 mt) 

or more from vessels using mid-water 

trawl gear during the primary whiting 

season. This action would improve 

NMFS’s ability to effectively monitor 

the whiting fishery such that catch of 

whiting and incidentally caught species, 

including overfished groundfish 

species, do not result in a species’

optimum yield (OY), harvest guideline, 

allocations, or bycatch limits being 

exceeded. This action would also 

provide for timely reporting of Chinook 

salmon take as specified in the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 

Biological Opinion for Chinook salmon 

catch in the Pacific groundfish fishery. 

This action is consistent with the 

conservation goals and objectives of the 

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP). 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

April 24, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by I.D. 031907A by any of the 

following methods: 

• E-mail: 

HakeProcessors.nwr@noaa.gov: Include 

I.D 031907A in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 206–526–6736, Attn: Becky 

Renko 

• Mail: D. Robert Lohn, 

Administrator, Northwest Region, 

NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, 

Seattle, WA 98115–0070, Attn: Becky 

Renko 

Copies of the Environmental 

Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/ 

Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

(EA/RIR/IRFA) prepared for this action 

may be obtained from the Northwest 

Region, NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way 

N.E., BIN C15700, Bldg. 1, Seattle, WA 

98115–0070. Written comments 

regarding the burden-hour estimates or 

other aspects of the collection-ofinformation requirements contained in 

this proposed rule may be submitted to 

the Northwest Region (see Addresses) 

and by e-mail to 

DavidlRostker@omb.eop.gov, or fax to 

(202) 395–7285 Send comments on 

collection-of-information requirements 

to the NMFS address above and to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), Washington DC 

20503 (Attn: NOAA Desk Officer). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Becky Renko, phone: 206–526–6110, 

fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail: 

becky.renko@noaa.gov. 

Electronic Access: This proposed rule 

is accessible via the Internet at the 

Office of the Federal Register’s Web site 

at http://www.access.gpo.gov/suldocs/ 

aces/aces140.html. Background 

information and documents are 

available at the NMFS Northwest Region 

Web site at http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/

Groundfish-Halibut/Groundfish-FisheryManagement/index.cfmand at the 

Council’s Web site at http:// 

www.pcouncil.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed action is to provide for 

electronic catch accounting and other 

monitoring improvements for the shorebased sector of the whiting fishery. The 

proposed action defines requirements 

for recordkeeping, reporting, catch 

sorting, and scale use for persons who 

receive, buy, or accept unsorted 

deliveries (generally processors or 

transporters) of 4,000 lb (1.8 mt) or more 

of whiting from vessels using midwater 

trawl gear during the primary season for 

the shore-based sector. This action is 

intended to address difficulties that 

occurred during the 2006 whiting 

season that could compromise the 

ability to account for the catch of target, 

incidental and prohibited species, and 

which could compromise the ability to 

manage groundfish species OYs, trip 

limits, bycatch limits, and Chinook 

salmon take in relation to Biological 

Opinion specifications. 

The shore-based whiting fishery 

needs to have a catch reporting system 

in place that: provides timely reporting 

of catch data so that whiting, overfished 

species and Chinook salmon can be 

adequately monitored and accounted for 

inseason; and, specifies catch sorting 

and weight requirements necessary to 

maintain the integrity of fish ticket 

values used to manage groundfish 

species OYs, trip limits, and bycatch 


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